Telangana Assembly Elections 2018 – On Monday, the Congress released its first list of 65 candidates for the December 7 Telangana Assembly polls, with state party chief N Uttam Kumar Reddy to contest from the Huzurnagar constituency.
The list was declared after a marathon meeting of the party’s Central Election Committee (CEC) chaired by party president Rahul Gandhi.
All Telangana state Congress leaders were present at the meeting. The list was released late at night by CEC General Secretary Mukul Wasnik.
The Congress is seeking to have an electoral understanding on various seats with Chandrababu Naidu’s Telugu Desam Party (TDP), which was an ally of the ruling NDA, had walked out of the ruling alliance some time ago over the issue of the Centre not granting special status to Andhra Pradesh.
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